Alfred Hitchcock: The Psycho Genius of Hollywood - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
Alfred Hitchcock: The Psycho Genius of Hollywood - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
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Perfection of the work vs. perfection of the life is an age-old conflict, but in Hitchcock’s case the dichotomy resists convenient parsing, because the facts of his life are so tightly raveled with the big themes in his work: the thwarted desire that darkens into monomania, the tense duality of inhibition and violence, the exalted vision twinned with the near-sadistic drive for total control, especially over the actors he said “should be treated like cattle.” These warring impulses shaped Hitchcock’s ceaseless striving “to manipulate an audience’s sensibilities to the utmost,” as Donald Spoto wrote in The Dark Side of Genius, his biography of the director.
From the article:
Perfection of the work vs. perfection of the life is an age-old conflict, but in Hitchcock’s case the dichotomy resists convenient parsing, because the facts of his life are so tightly raveled with the big themes in his work: the thwarted desire that darkens into monomania, the tense duality of inhibition and violence, the exalted vision twinned with the near-sadistic drive for total control, especially over the actors he said “should be treated like cattle.” These warring impulses shaped Hitchcock’s ceaseless striving “to manipulate an audience’s sensibilities to the utmost,” as Donald Spoto wrote in The Dark Side of Genius, his biography of the director.
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